Originally Posted By: Pipeline

If you need to have all the million and one functions and features that the Biab app has in the plugin it would be better having ReWire.
I think the plugin is more to add extra instruments to an existing DAW session the same way as EZKeys, EZDrummer or MusicLab RealGuitars do.


I disagree. Or at least in part I do. I get it that it would maybe be complex to add ALL the features of BIAB standalone into the plugin - and Rewire provides audio and tempo-sync and comms direct to BIAB standalone- but...... BUT...Unless i'm mistaken REWIRE will not allow the DAW users to store the exact BIAB song data with the DAW project itself. Having the chord progressions and all the arrangement options stored in just one file cuts out a lot of hassle.

Now rather than put all the features of BIAB standalone for editing the arrangement - maybe some technical scheme whereby - providing the BIAB standalone app is running - BIAB standalone could server as the editor for the song arrangement data that gets saved as plugin saved-state data in the main DAW project.

I guess this is kind of how the BBM4 engine is working at the moment. It already gets used to present and process the Style Picker dialog ( which as it currently stands - GUI wise - is - lets say... sub-optimal )

So having the option instead to jut use full BIAB Standalone to edit the song - but have all the song data and any changes - passed back to the plugin for saving IN THE DAW PROJECT - this would be ideal.

We get the advantages of "total recall" for everything in the DAW project - plus - without adding much to the plugin GUI itself -having all the tools to experiment with a song arrangement as we are used to.

I think it is a false move and short-sighted to consider a PLUGIN based version of using BIAB as somehow a reduced requirement thing.

Last edited by nonchai; 09/21/19 05:52 AM.
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